Recovery and Restoration

Edifying and encouraging articles as regards recovery and restoration from addiction.

• Addiction
  Any human activity can become an addiction when carried to an extreme.
  
  
• Addictive Agents
  No, not secret agents, addictive agents. You know, those persons or things upon which we form an excessive dependency.
  
  
• Alcoholic Dilemma
  The Alcoholic's Dilemma - A Lament
  
  
• Conviction vs. Compulsion
  Admittedly, it can be tricky to discern between a conviction and a compulsion.
  
  
• Drinking in a New Reality
  A Professor discovers a pardox in giving up drinking.
  
  
• Eight Principles Based on the Beatitudes
  Eight Principles Based on the Beatitudes
  
  
• Jesus the Liberator
  Jesus is the Liberator, for He brings God's Truth.
  
  
• Kicking Bad Habits
  Kicking Bad Habits. Recognize the symptoms and their destructive end.
  
  
• Letting Go and Trusting in God
  Letting Go and Trusting in God. We say that we want to know the will of God, but when we find out what it is, we can't handle it.
  
  
• Personal Notes
  The following are some personal notes I made early in my recovery, while attending some Christians in Recovery (CIR) meetings.
  
  
• Some Thoughts On Hope
  Hope is the key ingredient to a successful campaign against personal addiction.
  
  
• The Strictest Discipline
  The Strictest Discipline. The principle taught here is the strictest discipline or lesson that ever hit humankind.
  
  
• Twelve Steps to Total and Complete Insanity
  Twelve Steps to Insanity comes from the ACA Communicator - March 1990 - Omaha, Council Bluffs Area Intergroup
  
  
• Twelve Steps and Their Biblical Comparisons
  Twelve Steps and Their Biblical Comparisons
  
  
• Voices in Recovery
  Letters of concern and encouragement as regards recovery from addiction.
  
  
• What warnings about drinking are in the Bible?
  The Bible is cautious about the use of alcohol and includes many warnings.